The Chinese word for notebook is
笔记本

bǐ jì běn

Chinese Definition

notebook
1. 笔记本
2. 手册
3. 期票簿
4. 本子
5. 簿子
Components
笔
1. Variant of 筆
记
1. Simplified form of 記
本
1. (of plants) root; stem
2. source; origin; root
努力工作是成功之本。 - Hard work is the ultimate source of success.
3. foundation; basis
謙遜是美德之本。 - Humility is the foundation of all virtue.
4. edition; version; copy
標點本 - punctuated edition
宋本 - Song-era edition
5. originally; initially
6. current; present
本年 - current year
本財政年度的全部投資預算已用完。 - We have already used up our total investment budget for the current fiscal year.
7. this; here; this very
本人 - I lit. this person
戲精本精 - drama queen him/herself
本函下面所示系 Y 先生的簽名。 - You will find the signature of Mr. Y. at the foot hereof.
8. capital (money used in investment)
一本書 - a book
一本雜誌 - a magazine
一本冊 (chi̍t pún chheh) - a book, MN
9. volume
10. (Korean Classical Chinese) ancestral seat of a descent group

筆記本
1. n. notepad (made from paper); notebook
我在筆記本上寫了一個gè 單子zi。 - I wrote down a list on my notepad.
2. n. (computing) (zh-short-comp, 筆記本電腦, t=laptop computer; notebook)
筆記本過熱 - laptop overheating
這兩臺筆記本雖然外形很像，但是功能上卻差別很大。 - Although these two notebooks look very similar, their functions are quite different.

笔记本
1. Simplified form of 筆記本

本子
1. n. book
2. n. notebook (book in which notes are written)
3. n. edition (work published by a certain editor or in a certain manner)
4. n. (colloquial) identification; identity document; credential; papers; ID card
5. n. (pejorative, slang) Jap
6. n. (ACG, neologism) doujinshi (especially pornographic)
7. n. (literary) tree trunk